Wednesday 13 November 2024

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #6

The pretty Oxfordshire market town of Abingdon-on-Thames seems like a place you would expect to be free of the cosmopolitan middle class bullshit of PC wokery.  Well, thanks to a middle class cosmopolitan university lecturer who got wind of a 'controversial' pub name, said pub is now changing its name!

Dr Erin Pritchard is a 'disability lecturer' at Liverpool Hope University, which is 180 miles away from sleepy Abingdon.  As a dwarf, Dr Pritchard has made it her life's mission to hunt down 'offensive' terms that she claims are offensive to the wee folk.  In 2022 she successfully managed to persuade Marks and Spencer to rename their 'midget gems' to 'mini gems', because she claimed that the word 'midget' is a form of 'hate speech'.  Tesco, Morrisons, Maynards and other retailers soon followed suit, simply out of fear for not being deemed progressive enough by the cancel mob.

Dr Pritchard's X feed is basically a long list of her attempts to cleanse the English speaking world of the word 'midget'.  So when she found out that there was a pub in Oxfordshire called The Midget, she swung into action and started a petition demanding that the brewery change the name.  That the pub is actually named after a classic sports car that was produced in the town's former MG factory, thereby reflecting a piece of local heritage, is anathema to the frothy-mouthed lunatic from Liverpool.

Despite the fact that her online petition only garnered a somewhat paltry 1,344 signatures after ten months, the brewery caved in and the pub will be renamed The Roaring Raindrop when it reopens next month following refurbishment.  The new name refers to another MG model, made famous in 1957 when it broke the land speed record driven by British racing legend Stirling Moss.

Since the news of the name change broke, angry locals have begun their own online petition in opposition to the change.  This new petition garnered more than twice that of Pritchard's in just a matter of days and at the time of writing is approaching 3,000 signatures.  However, it is unlikely to provoke a change of heart from Greene King, as we know only too well that the communist speech police of cosmopolitan middle class suburbia hold more sway than disgruntled local people who actually live there and use these amenities...


Following her most recent victory, we can surely now expect Pritchard to expand her campaign against Abingdon's motoring heritage by demanding that place names be changed, too.  The Midget pub, for example, is located in Midget Place.

We know that the Marxist left who like to police speech are no different from the book burning Nazi socialists they claim to oppose.  Dr Pritchard's own intolerance is perhaps best exemplified by the image on the front of her book about dwarfism.  It is the depiction of a circus tent in flames.  So, rather like the woke dwarf actor Peter Dinklage - who decried a Hollywood remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Dr Pritchard is only too happy to deprive other dwarves of employment, save that she may be offended on their behalf!

Last week's DEI football meme generated 81 comments and 50 shares on Facebook.

Tuesday 12 November 2024

TOON TUESDAY #31

While most of the cartoonists in our predominantly left-leaning newspapers went with absurd depictions of a 'tyrant' entering the White House, there were a handful who allured to an awkward relationship looming between the Trump administration and the polar opposite Starmer government...

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph
Peter Brookes for The Times
Graeme Bandeira for The Yorkshire Post
Andy Davey for The Daily Telegraph

Monday 11 November 2024

MEME MONDAY #12

Donald Trump's resounding victory happened to coincide with a low profile week for our despised Labour government.  So if you're no fan of the Donald, look away now...

Mon 4 Nov - 391 shares on Facebook
Wed 6 Nov - 125 shares
Wed 6 Nov - 253 shares
Thurs 7 Nov - 43 shares
Fri 8 Nov - 719 shares 
One of our most popular memes of the year
Sat 9 Nov - 138 shares
Sat 10 Nov - 39 shares
No court date yet for the Cheshire MP
Sun 10 Nov - 66 shares
Sun 10 Nov - 30 shares

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Friday 8 November 2024

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 07.11.24


It's an overwhelmingly Scottish affair this week. with five of the nine by-elections taking place north of the border.  Please note that Scotland uses the Single Transferable Vote system, as opposed to the First Past the Post system used in England and Wales.

Scottish Tories will be overjoyed with four gains from the SNP, three of which came in Aberdeenshire.  Elsewhere, Labour held in Inverclyde where lots of absentees helped them to a rare increased vote share.  Their vote share was down in four other seats and they amassed a grand total of just 12 votes, standing as newcomers in Herefordshire.

While Douglas Ross will be cock-a-hoop in Scotland, Kemi Badenoch will not be so pleased with results in England.  There were a couple of intriguing results, both gains that involved newcomers Reform.  Labour gained a council seat in Blackpool from the Conservatives, despite seeing their vote share dip by more than 16 points.  The Tories themselves were pushed into third place with their share plunging by almost 30 points.  Why?  Reform stood here for the first time and racked up an impressive total, missing out on a gain of their own by just 13 votes.  This is the first seat Labour have gained in England since the general election/

The other seat of interest was also in Lancashire, where Reform again came from nowhere to take a seat from the Conseravatives on Wyre Council.  Not a great start for Kemi...

Central Buchan, Aberdeenshire Council

(First preference votes)

Con: 1,260 (41.3%) +8.0%
SNP: 869 (28.5%) -2.6%
LDm: 435 (14.3%) +1.2%
Ref: 332 (10.9%) New
SFP: 83 (2.7%) +1.3%
Ind: 71 (2.3%) New

Con GAIN from SNP (elected stage 5)

Fraserburgh & District, Aberdeenshire Council

(First preference votes)

Con: 1,145 (36.3%) +3.9%
SNP: 895 (28.4%) +8.4%
Ref: 817 (25.9%) New
LDm: 222 (7.0%) +2.2%
SFP: 71 (2.3%) +1.3%

Con GAIN from SNP (elected stage 5)

Mearns, Aberdeenshire Council

(First preference votes)

Con: 1,347 (39.2%) +7.5%
SNP: 832 (24.2%) -4.8%
LDm: 745 (21.7%) +15.2%
Ref: 375 (10.9%) New
Grn: 136 (4.0%) +0.6%

Con GAIN from SNP (elected stage 4)

Great Hollands, Bracknell Forest Borough Council

Lab: 681 (46.1%) -27.8%
Con: 411 (27.8%) +1.7%
Ref: 258 (14.1%) New
Ind: 158 (10.7%) New
Hrt: 20 (1.4%) New

Lab HOLD

Bispham, Blackpool Borough Council

Lab: 436 (31.5%) -16.5%
Ref: 424 (30.7%) New
Con: 314 (22.7%) -29.2%
Ind: 148 (10.7%)New
Grn: 36 (2.6%) New
LDm: 24 (1.7%) New

Lab GAIN from Con

Bishops Frome & Cradley, Herefordshire Council

Grn: 531 (60.1%) -8.9%
Con: 215 (24.3%) -2.9%
Ref: 99 (11.2%) New
LDm: 27 (3.1%) -0.8%
Lab: 12 (1.4%) New

Grn HOLD

Inverclyde West, Inverclyde Council

(First preference votes)

Lab: 932 (34.0%) +7.9%
SNP: 923 (33.7%) +7.1%
Con: 415 (15.2%) +5.7%
Alb: 239 (8.7%) +6.1%
Ref: 230 (8.4%) New

Lab HOLD (stage TBC)

Elgin City South, Moray Council

(First preference votes)

SNP: 849 (33.2%) -3.3%
Con: 834 (31.6%) +4.8%
Lab: 487 (18.5%) -9.6%
LDm: 466 (17.7%) +14.6%

Con GAIN from SNP (elected at stage 4)

Marsh Mill, Wyre Borough Council

Ref: 567 (38.6%) New
Con: 449 (30.6%) -27.2%
Lab: 400 (27.2%) -15.0%
Grn: 52 (3.5%) New

Ref GAIN from Con

Abbreviations

Con = Conservative
SNP = Scottish National Party
LDm = Liberal Democrat
Ref = Reform UK
SFP = Scottish Family Party
Grn = Green
Lab = Labour
Hrt = Heritage
Alb = Alba
Ind = Independents

Wednesday 6 November 2024

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #5

We were tempted to go with a Trump theme today, but the memes are endless right now as the left continue to melt down, so we opted for something else.


Incidentally, prior to Seth's appointment, Newcastle United banned a fan from their ground for social media posts about transgender people.  The fan is now taking legal action against the club, who took the Orwellian action after someone complained that: "If I were trans, I would feel extremely unsafe and incredibly discriminated towards had I had to share a space with someone openly transphobic".

This happened long before Labour introduced the Employment Rights Bill, in which employers will be made liable for speech from members of the public that may offend their staff.  Full on dystopia.

Last week's trans meme generated 25 comments and 32 shares on Facebook.

CAN HE? WILL HE?


He most certainly can, but whether Trump will win again remains to be seen.  Polling going into election day is so tight nothing is certain, with all of the seven crucial swing states polling well within the margin of error.  It is impossible to confidently call any one of them for either candidate.

The seven so-called swing states are as follows, with the electoral college votes in brackets.  A candidate requires 270 electoral college votes to win the election.

Pennsylvania (19)
Georgia (16)
North Carolina (16)
Michigan (15)
Arizona (11)
Wisconsin (10)
Nevada (6)

The importance of winning Pennsylvania cannot be understated.  If Harris wins Pennsylvania and the neighbouring Rust Belt states of Michigan and Wisconsin - in addition to all the traditional blue states the Democrats would normally expect to win - she will be the 47th US president.

However, there is a very good chance that Trump could flip one or more of those traditional blue states, nullifying Harris's Rust Belt route to victory, as long as he takes swing states elsewhere.

So what are the other states that could come into play?  The two most likely states to flip to the other side are Virginia (13) and New Hampshire (4).  Both states have seen some impressive polling for Trump and he even took time out from his tour of swing states to hold a surprise rally in Virginia on Saturday.  He confidently announced to the packed rally that he was going to flip the state on Tuesday.  Virginia has been a blue state since 2008, while New Hampshire has been blue since 2004.

If Trump wins a landslide victory, a third state he could flip is New Jersey (14), a state that has been blue since 1992.

Beyond those three states, it is hard to imagine any more states flipping.  Trump is expected to poll very well in New York state (28) and, again, he has stated he will flip it.  However, New York state has been a blue state since 1988 and Democrats have had a huge majority there at every presidential election since 1996.  Highly unlikely to flip, but if it did then Trump's victory would likely be huge.

In the pursuit of fairness we should mention Iowa (6).  Trump flipped Iowa from blue in 2016 and held it in 2020 with a bigger vote share.  On Sunday a shock poll showed Harris leading Trump by three percentage points in Iowa and this was widely circulated by the establishment media outlet CNN.  The timing and prominence given to the poll suggested that the left-wing oriented broadcaster was trying to distract its viewers from other demoralising polls suggesting Trump could flip states elsewhere.  Another intention was to potentially distract Republicans from the key battlegrounds of Pennsylvania and elsewhere.  In any case, all other polls carried out in Iowa during the same period showed Trump leading Harris by between four and ten points.

The outcome of the election is not likely to be known until late on Wednesday or possibly longer.  The longer it drags on the more questions will be asked about the validity of the election.  Some counties in states such as Arizona, Georgia and Nevada are saying they won't be able to verify results for several days, up to a week and more.  When one considers that all these counties are led by Democrats, it opens up very serious questions about the counting process.

Our own United Kingdom general elections are counted and the results announced within hours of polls closing.  Even India - a country of 1.5billion people - can declare their electoral results within 24 hours.  The 2020 US presidential election was a joke, and this latest election looks set to follow suit.  The words 'banana republic' spring to mind.

We know that the party of the globalists will cheat in order to maintain their grip on power, this is a given.  As conservatives and libertarians, we've got to hope that this one is too big to rig...

Tuesday 5 November 2024

TOON TUESDAY #30

Thanks to Red Rachel's land grab budget, we will see our wonderful farmers fighting back against her net zero nanny state very soon.  Protests are planned for later this month - no farmers, no food!

Bob Moran on X
Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

With a very important election day over the Pond, this is how US conservative AF Branco sees it...

AN ELECTION OF WORLD IMPORTANCE


Many conservative commentators have called this election 'the most important in our lifetime' or even the most important in American history.  In actual fact, this election is much more important than that.

While it is well documented that Trump was the first US president in decades not to drag his country into a new foreign conflict, what is less well known is the fact that without him in the White House we are now closer to nuclear apocalypse than at any point since the end of the Cold War.  When Putin talks about 'red lines' do we take him seriously or keep provoking him by crossing those lines?  Let's not forget that Putin's invasion of Ukraine only came about through decades of NATO provocation.  Who is to say he would not 'push the button', especially if he felt his back was against the wall?

It is not simply that Western leaders are playing a deadly game in Ukraine, they are playing a game that could result in end times.  It has to stop.  The war has to stop.

That will not happen if Harris wins on Tuesday.  She and Biden have barely uttered the word 'peace' over the last two years, these are globalist war hawks only too happy to prolong the conflict indefinitely.  The eye watering amounts of money flowing into Ukraine will continue, the war will continue.

Contrast with Trump's position: End the war as soon as possible.

He actually claims he would stop it in his first 24 hours if re-elected.  That is a bold claim and certainly one which can be taken with a pinch of salt.  But we know from his previous term that he is not a hawk and instead of isolating and antagonising our designated enemies, he speaks to them.  Who can forget his historic meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, in which he became the first US president to set foot in North Korea?

If Biden and Harris won't even speak to Vladimir Putin, how on earth can there ever be peace?

While establishment media continues to promote the idea that Trump is Putin's greatest ally, they conveniently omit the fact that Russia did not attack or annexe any neighbouring state during the Trump presidency.  The Donbas War and annexation of Crimea took place in 2014 - on Obama's watch - while Ukraine was invaded in 2022 under Joe Biden.  Mass media's implication that Putin presents a greater threat under a Trump presidency does not hold up to scutiny, in fact the opposite is true.

Trump is the man who can pull us back from the brink of World War III.  Harris is the war candidate, the continuity candidate, the establishment choice.

Trump will not merely save America - or in the very least hold back the tide of the globalist onslaught against it - he can save the world.

Monday 4 November 2024

MEME MONDAY #11

With a shocking budget in play, it was a bumper week for memes.  Rachel Reeves and Mike Amesbury featured prominently, both of which in relation to criminal acts.  One physically attacked a constituent, while the other robbed millions of Brits of their earnings, welfare and property...

Mon 28 Oct - 92 Facebook shares
Tue 29 Oct - 279 shares
Wed 30 Oct - 103 shares
Wed 30 Oct - 29 shares
Wed 30 Oct - 103 shares
Thurs 31 Oct - 166 shares
Fri 1 Nov - 66 shares
Fri 1 Nov - 319 shares
Sat 2 Nov - 317 shares
Sat 2 Nov - 196 shares
Sun 3 Nov - 24 shares
Sun 3 Nov - 70 shares

Sunday 3 November 2024

KEMI GOES MLK

Speaking to the Beeb's Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday, the presenter inevitably drew attention to Kemi Badenoch's immutable characteristics of being a black female party leader.  "What do you think of it as a milestone?" asked Kuennsberg.  Badenoch's response was pure Martin Luther King as she said: "I think the best thing will be is where we get to the point when the colour of your skin is no more remarkable than the colour of your eyes or the colour of your hair."

She added how astonished she is that Rachel Reeves goes to such great lengths to remind everyone that she is the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer.  "I think that is a very low glass ceiling within the Labour party... no more significant than what other women in this country have achieved".

Watch the clip below.

Saturday 2 November 2024

BADENOCH ELECTED TORY LEADER


Kemi Badenoch has been elected Tory leader in the membership ballot.  She defeated Robert Jenrick by a comfortable margin of 12,418 votes.  After the applause and cheering subsided, Badenoch gave her maiden speech as leader and wasted no time in taking a shot at Keir Starmer's party, asking "Isn't it great to have another woman as party leader?"

Not just a woman, a black woman.  Another first for the Tories, and succeeding their first Asian leader no less.  Meanwhile, the so-called 'progressives' over at Labour have still not elected a single female leader, let alone anyone who isn't white.  The left will be bubbling with hate at the sight of Badenoch taking the helm, just as they could not contain their hatred for other non-white Tory females such as Patel and Braverman.

Badenoch continued:  "The task ahead is tough, but simple.  First, hold the Labour government to account and second, prepare for government with a clear plan.  Keir Starmer is discovering all too late the perils of not having a plan".

Starmer has a plan, alright.  To bring this country to its knees.

Will Badenoch provide a valid alternative to his globalist net zero agenda, or can we expect more of the same left-leaning nanny state authoritarianism of Johnson and Sunak?  The latter is more likely, which is probably why the new kids on the block over at Reform won't be losing too much sleep over this appointment.

Friday 1 November 2024

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 31.10.24


Seven contests this week and just two Labour defences.  They held with a reduced majority in the deepest of red territory - Salford - but lost spectacularly to newcomers Reform in Wolverhampton.  Labour's vote share was down in all six of the seats the party contested, including almost 40 percentage points in that aforementioned Wolverhampton seat.

Sileby & Seagrove, Charnwood Borough Council

Grn: 752 (52.9%) +0.1%
Ref: 297 (20.9%) New
Con: 262 (18.4%) -8.2%
Lab: 70 (4.9%) -12.0%
LDm: 40 (2.8%) -0.8%

Grn HOLD

Bishops Waltham, Hampshire County Council

LDm: 2,210 (52.2%) +28.6%
Con: 1,431 (33.8%) -23.1%
Grn: 477 (11.3%) -2.0%
Lab: 115 (2.7%) -2.6%

LDm GAIN from Con

North Middleton, Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Ind: 812 (51.7%) +8.3%
Lab: 572 (36.4%) -11.9%
Con: 108 (6.9%) +0.3%
LDm: 80 (5.1%) +3.4%

Ind HOLD

Eccles, Salford City Council

Lab: 951 (51.2%) -11.8%
Con: 426 (23.0%) +6.2%
Grn: 261 (14.1%) -0.2%
LDm: 142 (7.6%) New
TUS: 61 (4.1%) -1.8%

Lab HOLD

Bramhall South & Woodford, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Con: 1,909 (47.9%) +4.6%
LDm: 1,733 (43.5%) -1.4%
Ref: 133 (3.3%) New
Lab: 115 (2.9%) -4.2%
Grn: 95 (2.4%) 2.3%

Con GAIN from LDm

Kirkby Stephen & Tebay, Westmorland and Furness Council

LDm: 887 (82.7%) +39.1%
Con: 186 (17.3%) -24.8%

LDm GAIN from Con

Bilston North, Wolverhampton City Council

Ref: 652 (34.8%) New
Lab: 471 (25.1%) -39.9%
Grn: 438 (23.4%) New
Con: 257 (13.7%) -14.3%
LDm: 55 (2.9%) -4.1%

Ref GAIN from Lab

Abbreviations

Grn = Green
Ref = Reform UK
Con = Conservative
Lab = Labour
LDm = Liberal Democrat
TUS = Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Ind = Independents and local groups

REEVES SNUBS MARTIN LEWIS

The Chancellor snubbed an invitation to appear on Martin Lewis's prime-time Budget special on ITV last night.  We know why and he showed it.  Lewis knows a thing or two about finance - arguably more than Red Rachel - and he spent an hour dismantling her dreadful Budget and laying out the true cost for ordinary Brits.  He reminded us again on Good Morning Britain why she ran scared of him.

Watch the clip below.

Wednesday 30 October 2024

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #4

It was a very telling statement when Blackrock CEO Larry Fink said his powerful investment firm wanted to 'force behaviours' when it came to DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion).  This was way back in 2017 and since then the West has been sinking into a pit of ever more absurd social engineering.  It should come as no great surprise to anyone with a basic knowledge of political history to find that wokeness - like the Marxism that pushes it - can only be implemented by force.

Last month a 17-year-old girl was charged by the Football Association in relation to 'transphobic' comments made during a match.  The young female was reportedly upset that a much larger opponent - sporting a beard, allegedly - was participating in the female game.  She is said to have asked him: "Are you a man", additionally remarking to team mates: "That's a man".  She is also alleged to have told him: "Don't come here again".

Quite right, too!

The very few newspapers that carried this story made capital out of the girl's 'suspected autism', as if this might explain her actions.  This is irrelevant - her behaviour should be celebrated and not explained away as if she was somehow in the wrong.

She is also said to have raised her concerns with the referee, following 'a number of overtly physical challenges'.  And therein lies one of the main problems with the absurd acceptance that a man can be accepted in female sports just because he identifies that way.  Men are overwhelmingly larger, faster and more powerful than females, raising legitimate safety concerns - both on and off the pitch.  While the opposition team reported the girl for her 'transphobia', are those players all happy to share a shower with this biological male after the game?

The girl could be banned for up to 12 matches if found 'guilty', surely a deterrent to others and clearly 'forcing behaviours' as Larry Fink would no doubt be proud of...


Last week's Robin Hood meme generated 274 comments and 69 shares on Facebook.

Tuesday 29 October 2024

TOON TUESDAY #29

It's the eve of Rachel Reeves' expected horror budget and cartoonists wasted no time in using Mike Amesbury's vicious assault to make that point...

Ben Jennings for The Guardian
Richard Jolley for The Spectator
Nick Newman for The Sunday Times

Meanwhile, the Democrats and their media allies have pushed the Hitler panic button in response to Trump's rising poll figures.  This is not the first time they have deployed this smear tactic, in fact they have used it not only against Trump at the last three elections, but against each of his Republican predecessors George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney.

When Trump held a rally at Madison Square Garden this week, they again likened him to Hitler because the Nazis just happened to hold a rally there in the 1930s, while ignoring the fact that the Democrats themselves have held events at the same venue - as have thousands of other organisations, musicians and entertainers!  Desperate stuff indeed...

Tom Stiglich on X
AF Branco on X
SKS Cartoon on X
Cian Ci on X

AMESBURY 'FELT THREATENED'

Labour's Mike Amesbury is in serious deep water and he knows it.  With video footage from multiple angles, including the CCTV footage, there is zero doubt that Amesbury committed a sustained violent assault on a constituent in the early hours of Saturday.  With millions of Britons watching on in anticipation of how this plays out, if nothing is done it will further instill what we already know - Two Tier Britain is not a myth.

Amesbury's only public response to date is a statement on his social media accounts, in which he says he 'felt threatened'.  However, the video footage clearly shows that his victim was standing off Amesbury, with his hands down by his sides and he actually looks away the moment before Amesbury launches his attack.  There is no visible threat to the MP and even with reports that the man had been complaining about a local bridge closure and cuts to winter fuel payments, if the debate was so heated why is everyone else in the video standing well away and apparently minding their own business - and yet, crucially, immediately intervene when they realise an assault is in progress?  If the two were arguing so vociferously and the MP felt 'threatened', surely these people would have been surrounding the men and trying to calm them down?


As ever, there is a very apt social media post from the MP at the centre of this incident.  Less than three months ago, Amesbury posted about 'thugs and criminals' on X, sharing a Home Office graphic that threatened rioters with hefty sentences...


What sentence can we expect for you, Mr Amesbury?

Monday 28 October 2024

MEME MONDAY #10

Smacking bans, slavery reparations, the death of a political prisoner and more...

Mon 21 Oct - 105 Facebook shares
Tues 22 Oct - 400 shares
Wed 23 Oct - 369 shares
Thurs 24 Oct - 94 shares
Fri 25 Oct - 247 shares
Sat 26 Oct - 57 shares
Sat 26 Oct - 143 shares
Sun 27 Oct - 64 shares
Sun 27 Oct - 74 shares